[clue-talk] meeting topics

[David Rudder]

I never heard any yea or nays on this.  Is anyone interested in doing
web service integration from the command-line?  If not, is there
something in this general topic area that would be more interesting?

-Dave

David Rudder wrote:
> Would anyone be interested in hearing about REST?  I could give a talk 
> on using RESTful web services from the command-line and in scripts.  
> It's not linux specific, but might be interested to linux admins.  
> Send syslog to twitter, or start Amazon EC2 instances using the 
> "service" command.  Use 30 Boxes to schedule cron jobs.  Once you know 
> the basics of REST, anyone who can use all the unix utils, sed, awk, 
> grep, sh, etc.  should be able to do some pretty cool things.
>
> -Dave
>
> Dennis J Perkins wrote:
>> What topics would members like to hear?  And how many of you are willing
>> or brave enough to give a talk?  You don't need to be an expert.  Just
>> give a talk on a program, distro, whatever, that you are familiar with
>> or have just learned.
>>
>> Possible topics
>> ---------------
>> Firefox extensions
>> GNUPG & public key encryption
>> encrypting email
>> kernel compilation, tricks and options
>> CUPS (This seems to be a perennial problem.)
>> desktop publishing
>> simple bash programming
>> Ruby
>> Glade
>> KDE 4
>> Dbus, HAL and udev
>> minimalist window managers:  fluxbox, xfce, etc
>> video editing
>> music players: Amarok, ryhthmbox, gnomad, or another player
>> setting up a firewall
>> Linux in a business
>> Linux in education
>> your favorite distro
>> financial programs
>> editing tips in vim (or Emacs)
>> games on Linux
>> WINE
>> Samba
>> setting up SSH on your network
>>
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